Meta Rec: M-Theory: Mycroft, Moriarty, and Magnussen's Shared Motifs

[swissmarg]

Title: M-theory: Mycroft, Moriarty, and Magnussen’s shared motifs, James Bond’s “M,” Mary and Janine, and the big gay long game
On Tumblr (with embedded audio) / On AO3 (downloadable but without audio)
Author: Loudest_Subtext_in_Television
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 85,989 words
Rating: Unrated
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
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Comments

[haikitteh]

I'll have to give this one another try. I devoured "Softly, Softly," but foundered on this piece. Probably because I was reading on a tablet & didn't have access to the audio/visual material.

As an aside, I didn't know that one aspect of TJLC was that they may eventually be revealed to have been secret lovers the whole time, a la Mulder & Scully. I'll admit that I found that reveal at the end of X-Files pretty unsatisfying, so I'm hoping they don't go in that direction!

[swissmarg]

Oh, well maybe that's just my interpretation of TJLC. In this meta it's only the aspect of the series ending up with John and Sherlock together. This meta doesn't suggest that they are actually together all along.

[bk7brokemybrain]

Oh my god. 86K of meta is something I MUST read, and yet it's going to break my brain all over again. My mind is spinning just from looking at the table of contents and the summary. Thank you so much for reccing this. I am a total soundtrack nerd, and am especially enamoured of this season's OST (which just won an Emmy, tyvm! Deservedly!) That this includes sound cues as part of the subtext makes me deliriously happy. I'm not on Tumblr, so I'm much obliged for you pointing me at the post.
*head spins*

[swissmarg]

It sounds like this is right up your alley then. I hope you have fun with it!

[lijahlover]

This was amazing to read. :) Have fun :))))

[lijahlover]

If I run over any metas that talk about sound I will link them to you. I know I have read some interesting ones. Here is one of my favorite metas on Mary Mary Morstan

[lijahlover]

It took me some time to read every word but I enjoyed myself :)

[bk7brokemybrain]

I'm holding off starting right away. I have a feeling it's going to rock my world a lot, and I'm almost sure this is going to mess with my head for a while. Just the summary is astounding enough.
Also, I want Moriarty to be dead. Too many people came back from irreversible death on that show, so if Moriarty comes back, it'll feel cheap. I'm still thinking he's a twin or a triplet, so if the crazy one died and left a more stable brother, I could accept that. Too many cheats would make me irritated.

[swissmarg]

Well, remember this is just a fan's ideas. It's not necessarily what's really going on, or what's really going to happen. But it sure is an interesting way to look at things!

[bk7brokemybrain]

But they are very exciting theories, lol! And backed up with so much evidence that they are hard to discount, even temporarily until we get actual canon to confirm or refute.
It's gotten to the point with JKR and all her new canon data that I don't even want to read it. The Snupin shipper in me does not want to know that Lupin never fell in love before Tonks, that kind of thing. Ugh. This is kind of the same thing. I'm afraid of learning something that will set new fixed points in the world that might upset me. Fanfic is one thing, we can ignore fans versions of things. but canon I want to adore. Fortunately, many of the theories in the summary are things I'd heard of/thought of already, so I'm not terribly wary. Also, I'd be so happy if Mycroft really has been matchmaking since the get-go. He's a good brother. :)

[chapbook]

Thank you for recc'ing this! Whatever one may think of the conclusions come to in this set of metas, this is a genuinely important work in the fandom and definitely should be memorialized here. The author has been a class act too, despite being the center of controversy on Tumblr. I think the fun and optimism in LSiT's work really makes it attractive.

Personally, I'd love if the writers went in this direction with MyHo and MaMo in S4/5, but if they don't, I hope some of our talented fandom writers explore it in fic form, especially the MH part of things.

A note for anyone new to TJLC:
The "conspiracy" part of the name was and is intended as a joke, as in "it's something hidden in plain sight"; IOW, not much of a "secret conspiracy" after all.